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单词 weary
释义 wea·ry
I. \ˈwirē, ˈwēr-, -ri\ adjective
(-er/-est)
Etymology: Middle English wery, from Old English wērig; akin to Old Saxon wōrig weary, Old High German wuorag intoxicated, Old English wōrian to wander, totter, Old Norse ōrar (plural) fits of madness, Greek hōrakian to faint
1.
 a. : having the strength much impaired by toil or exertion : worn out in respect to strength, endurance, vigor
  < followed by troops of weary, dirty children — Irving Bacheller >
  < weary wings that rise and fall all day long — Edna S. V. Millay >
 b. : having lost freshness or virtue or usefulness
  < if another leftover is some weary noodles — R.P.Smith >
  < programs on television have degenerated into weary, predictable repetitions of each other — Edwin O'Connor >
2. : expressing or characteristic of weariness
 < weary, disillusioned note of futility in our life — J.C.Powys >
 < a weary sound that was not a sigh nor a groan — Charles Dickens >
3. : having one's patience, tolerance, or pleasure exhausted : impatient of the continuance or recurrence of something — used with of
 < councils grew weary of reiterating a demand which could not be enforced — R.W.Southern >
 < weary to death of this eight years profitless war — Harold Nicolson >
4. : exhausted by suffering or sorrow : mentally or spiritually fatigued : sad
 < effete, weary, burnt-out revolutionists — H.F.Mooney >
 < a world grown weary with fear — Robert Payne >
5. : causing weariness of body or spirit
 < ahead of them lay many weary miles of desert sand — G.F.Hudson >
: tiresome, tedious
 < bacon, beans, and bread make a weary meal three times a day — Allan Seager >
6. Scot & dialect England
 a. : sickly, puny, weak
 b. : wretched, grievous, unfortunate, disastrous
II. adverb
(-er/-est)
: wearily, wearyingly
III. verb
(-ed/-ing/-es)
Etymology: Middle English werien, from Old English wērigian, wērgian, from wērig weary
intransitive verb
1. : to become weary : tire
 < tendency to weary of burdens — Dean Acheson >
2. : to become exhausted in patience, tolerance, or liking
 < telling stories when they wearied of cards and games — A.B.Paterson >
 < people weary of old lies — Stuart Chase >
3. : to wait wearily : long or pine in expectation
 < paced up and down … wearying for the boat to get around — William Black >
 < wearying in spiritual wastes of sand and thorns — C.E.Montague >
4. : to bring on weariness : become monotonous or boring : pall
transitive verb
1. : to reduce or exhaust the physical strength or endurance of : fatigue
 < think out a solution without wearying the body by needless movement — James Hewitt >
2. : to make mentally or spiritually weary : exhaust the patience or tolerance of
 < exceeds and wearies credibility — John Mason Brown >
 < anxieties that lined his forehead and wearied his mind — Lennox Robinson >
— often used with out
 < paternal affection was not yet wearied out — T.B.Macaulay >
Synonyms: see tire
IV. \ˈwiri\ noun
(-es)
Etymology: probably from wary (I)
Scotland : curse, plague — used in mild imprecation
 < oh, weary on the wars — Sir Walter Scott >
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